The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-18

tributions of others not legally bound for their
support; provided that pension allowed under
this act shall commence prior to ats passage.
Section provides that all persons who served
three months or more in the military or naval
service of the United States in any war In which
the United States has been engaged, and who
have been honorably discharged therefrom. and
who are now or who may hereafter De suffering
from mental or physical disability, not the result
of their own vicious habits or gross car6iessness.
which incapacitases them for the performance OF
labor in such degree as to render than unable
to earn a support, and who are dependent upon
their labors for support shall. upon making due
proof of the fact according to such rules and reg
ulations the Secretary Of the Interior may
provide In pursuance of this act be placed on the
list of invalid pensioners Of the United States,
and be entitled to receive for such total inability
to procure their subsistence by daily labor, $l2
per month: and such pension shall commence
from the date of the filing of the application in
the Pension Office. upon proof that the disability
then existed, and continued during the exist
ence of the same in the degree herein provided.
This act shall not apply to persons under politi-
cal disabilities, or to any person whose disability
was incurred while engaged in the military serv-
ice against the United States
Mr. Eldridge. of Michigan, on behalf of the
committee on pensions, moved that the rules be
suspended and the House concur in the Senates
amendments to the Mexican pension bill.
Mr.. Bragg. of Wisconsin, in opposing the bill
because it proposed a service pension, gave his
reasons for voting against the bill which the
House had just passed, which. he thought,
should be a bin entitled ITO pension the rub
bish of the army of the United States and to re-
vive the business of claim agents in Washing
ton" 1t covered every substitute, every bounty
| jumper and every scalawag that went into the
army.
TIE motion to suspend the rules and concur
| in the Senate amendment was agreed to-Yeas,
| 243 nays, 5.
The bill now only required the Presidents ap
| prevail to become a law.
1t provides that pension of SO a month shall
| be paid to all surviving officers aud enlisted men
including marines, militia and volunteers of the
| military and naval service of the United States
| who, being duly enlisted. actually served sixty
| days with the army or navy OF the United States
| in Mexico or on the coasts or frontiers Thereon
4 or en- route thereto in the war with that nation
or were actually engaged in battle in said war
| and were honorably discharged, and to such othe
| officers. and soldiers, and sailors as may have
| been personally named in any resolution of Con
| gress for any specific service in said war; ant
| the surviving widows of such officer
| and enlisted men; provided, that such widow
| have not remarked: and provided that ever.
| such officer, enlisted man, or widow who Is o.
| may be siXty-two years OF age, or who may be
| come subject to any disability or dependence,
| equivalent to some cause prescribed or recog
/ nized by the pension laws OF the United States
| as a sufficient reason for the allowance OF
| pension, shall be entitled to the benefits of thi
| act; but it shall not be held to include any Der
| son not within the rule of age disability, o
| dependency herein defined, or who incurred
| such disability while in any manner voluntaril.
| engaged in, or aiding or abetting the late re
| bellion against the authority of the United
| States. Section 47l6, Revised Statutes, is re
| pealed far it relates to this act or to pen
| sioners under this act
| Adjourned.